[throwaway2016a]

While they link to CanIUse (great site) to make the point it is supported by almost all browsers... it is still only 87.56%.

Which for most of the products I work on means extra work to make sure the layout degrades gracefully in those browsers. While as long as your stakeholders don't mind that it looks completely different (but conveys the same meaning) on old browsers it is not "too" difficult. The lack of polyfill makes degrading to look identical us impractical.

The article should at least mention that.

All in all I agree with some other posters. This article has about as much value added as a tweet. And you would rarely see a tweet on hacker news. That's not to say it it shouldn't exist. I love tweets, just not on HN.

Great article on the subject: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/11/css-grid-supporting...

Edit: To beard since apparently this is self posted. I noticed you've been posting a lot of your own articles. I appreciate your involvement in Hacker News. Generally it is frowned upon to post your own articles unless it is a "Show HN" post. You would have more impact if you focused on quality over quantity.

[beards]

I appreciate the insight! I'm a noob to HN so I'll definitely post "Show HN" in the future. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

[throwaway2016a]

Welcome to Hacker News!

Show HN is more for projects, startups, and stuff like that.

Blog posts shouldn't use that title. What I was saying is self-promoted blog posts usually shouldn't be posted at all.

Most content on HN is here because someone found something they found intellectually interesting and wanted to share it. Self-posted content rarely gets front-paged.

But, with that said, there are exceptions. I don't want to discourage you from writing and blogging and all that good stuff! The community ultimately decides if something is frontpage worthy. I'm just one voice :)